SUE’S NEW PAGE~
Now would be the perfect time to check out our new link to Sue Lay. Sue has
inherited books and stacks of genealogy materials on the Couts / Mosely
families. She is currently sorting and adding as much information as she can to
her new web page as possible. The letter below is an excellent example of
genealogy that must of us have not seen.

Recent Ancestral
Origins

Welcome to the database of RECENT ANCESTRAL
ORIGINS (RAO). The results below show the ancestral origin of those you
match or nearly match in the RAO. The ancestral origin information is provided
by each testee, and is only as accurate as the testee's knowledge. Testees are
instructed to answer "Unknown Origin" when their ancestor's origin is uncertain
or not known.

Incorrect origins provided by testees may lead to search results that do not
seem logical. for example: Assume your ancestors are from England, but your
search results show the ancestral origin of your matches as England, France, AND
one match shows an origin of Native American. Does that mean that your ancestors
relatives may have lived in England and France? Yes. Does it mean that your
ancestor was also a Native American? No. This means that a settler in America
had a child with a Native American woman, the child was brought up as a Native
American, and that, over time, the family has "forgotten" the European ancestor,
and believe their ancestry to be Native American.

Over the span of generations people tend to move, as do borders, so nationality
or ethnicticity becomes subjective. for example, testees may enter Germany for
ancestral origin, because the land of their ancestors is Germany today, but the
land could have been held by Denmark for many centuries.

To see how your ancestral origin is recorded in our database, click on the link
above entitled Update Contact Information. You may also update your paternal and
maternal ancestral origin on the Update Contact Information page.

Exact matches show people who are the closest to you genetically. The Ancestral
origin shows where they have reported to have lived. Since many persons migrated
over the past few centuries, you will typically see matches in more than one
country.

for information purposes, the Recent Ancestral Origin search also displays
results for those who are near matches. A near match is either one step or two
steps from your result. An exact match is 12/12 or 25/25. A one step match is
11/12 or 24/25 and the magnitude of the mismatch is 1. A two step match is 10/12
or 23/25 and the magnitude of both mismatches is 1, or it is 11/12 or 24/25 and
the magnitude of the mismatch is 2. Near matches show where those who are
distantly related to you have migrated over time.

NThis haplogroup is distributed
throughout Northern Eurasia. It is the most common Y-chromosome type in
Uralic speakers (Finns and Native Siberian). This lineage most likely
originated in northern China or Mongolia and then spread into Siberia where
it became a very common line in western Siberia.

R1b1Haplogroup R1b1 is the most
common haplogroup in European populations. It is believed to have expanded
throughout Europe as humans re-colonized after the last glacial maximum
10-12 thousand years ago. This lineage is also the haplogroup containing the
Atlantic modal haplotype.

Watching
British sitcoms, I have heard a phrase that I believe to be safe as houses.
I had always assumed it to be an idiom with which, as an American, I was
unfamiliar. Recently, reading a British historical novel set in the late 1800s,
I read the phrase "safe as Couts'." Have I been victim of a mondegreen? If not,
who is Couts and what does the phrase mean? Nope. A
mondegreen isn't the culprit here, but rather an enduring and productive
cliché.

Coutt's &
Co. is Britain's oldest private bank, distinguished by the fact that it's where
the Royal Family stashes its hoard (a bit smaller these days, one presumes, now
that they've got to pay taxes like the commoners). Its main branch is off
Trafalgar Square in the geographic heart of London,
on the Strand opposite the Savoy Hotel. The gossip magazine Hello! has an
online version now, which reported in May 2001 that Coutt's is about to install
a cash machine inside Buckingham Palace for the convenience of the palace staff.
(The staff are probably the only exceptions to the general rule that one must
have at least GBP500,000, or twice that in assets, to open an account at Coutt's.)
All this to say that Coutt's is regarded as an exceedingly safe place to store
one's money.

That makes
Coutt's a fitting blank-filler in the expression as safe as...,
along with a wealth of other options that have been recorded since 1600. In
roughly chronological order from 1600 to 1910, here are some from Partridge's
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (8th ed.) and Farmer &
Henley's A Dictionary of Slang:
a mouse in a mill
a mouse in a malt-heap
a crow in a gutter
a mouse in cheese
the bellows
coons
houses
the bank (Coutt's is obviously a variant)
a church

Some of
these are obviously more transparent today than others; as is typical of slang,
references to contemporary events or objects are clear to their users, but are
obscured by the passing of time. This expression means 'perfectly safe', but
some of the variants refer to physical safety, whereas others are used in the
context of 'a sure bet'. As safe as houses, first recorded in 1859, has
endured in both meanings to the present day. Partridge quotes Hotten's A
Slang Dictionary as an explanation of its origin, saying that the meaning
may have arisen "when the railway bubbles began to burst and speculation again
favoured houses." Perhaps Coutt's is a safer bet, however: in the late 1980s in
England, after the stock market crash and the bust of the housing speculation
boom, I heard owners of homes with negative equity saying "as safe as
mattresses." Wendalyn

Hello, No I haven't, but I
would be happy to put your email or a story in our newsletter, one going out
next week, about Jacob Kouts. He must have descendants out there with pictures.
Merry Christmas, Barb Couts Evans

Thank you. Certainly you can
use the text of my email for your website or your newsletter, you also can copy
the text of Jacob's bio from the First Minnesota website and use the link. Jacob
became very old and was one of the last survivors of that regiment. Since he had
moved to California we have not found more traces in Minnesota. He might have
come to some of the reunions of the veterans though. Let's see if we'll be lucky
eventually.

Regards, E.J. Hausdorf (Austria)

Descendants of Jacob Kouts

Generation No. 1

1. JACOB2
KOUTS
(BARNHART1)1
was born 1842 in Ohio2, and died 09 Aug 1921 in Long Beach,
Los Angeles,
CA3. He married (1) MARGARET
C KOUTS4.
She was born 1843 in Indiana4.

Jacob
Kouts was born in Mansfield,
Ohio,
on July 4,
1842.
He was 19 years old and living in St Cloud,
MN, when the war began. He was mustered into Company D on May 20, 1861.
Jacob was about 5' 10" tall. He had a light complexion, light colored hair
and blue eyes.

He was
shot near his right elbow on July 2, 1863, during the regiment's charge at
Gettysburg.
The bullet just missed his elbow joint. It then traveled up his arm about
three inches. He and many of the other wounded men from the First
Minnesota were sent to Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia to recover.
He was back in the ranks by Oct but he was bothered by the wound for the
rest of his life. Jacob was mustered out with the regiment on May 5,
1864.

Jacob
married Adelaide M sawyer on June 1, 1866. Five years later, on June 23,
1871,
they were divorced.

The 1870
census reports that Jacob was living in Pleasant, IN. On Oct 3, 1871,
Jacob married Margaret C Davis in
Logansport, Cass County, Indiana. They had three children, Thomas
(1/20/1873) and Leroy (12/6/1875).
A daughter, born in 1877, died when she was two years old. The 1880 census
records that they were living in Koutts, Porter County, IN. By 1888, they
had moved to Ontario,
CA.

Jacob's
arm never recovered from the wound he suffered at Gettysburg. On Nov 1,
1896,
in order to save his life, his arm was amputated 6" above his elbow. Being
right handed, he was unable to do much work after that.

The 1910
roster of the veterans gives his street address at that time as 439 E 46th
Street in Los Angeles. The 1917 roster of the surviving veterans of the
First Minnesota lists his address as 1246 E 2nd St, in Long Beach,
California. The 1920 census lists only Jacob living in Long
Beach,
CA. Apparently Margaret had died by then. On August 9, 1921, he died in
Long Beach.